Branford Patch Dating Column

Wanna hear the worst pick-up line ever? “I write a dating column.”

The second worst is, “I used to write a dating column.”

For some reason, no guy wants to date the “dating column” girl, or the dating column girl of yesteryear – Sex and the City lied to me! I thought every guy wanted to date that girl – if for no other reason than she’s a challenge. And, aren’t most guys about the “conquest” of it all? Apparently not. Maybe every guy just wanted to date Sarah Jessica Parker.

I considered my chronic lack of boyfriend “job security,” back when dating and writing about it for the Branford Patch was kinda my job. Now, I just consider it more baggage.

The Patch editor found me on Twitter. Initially, she wanted to interview me about an “unconventional” dating method I’d employed (speed dating). She was thinking of doing a feature story. Thirty minutes into the interview, she decided I was entertainingly crazy. Fifteen minutes later, she offered me my own column, provided I could write.